page_title: Turkish Cypriot diaspora
section_title: Turkey
hierarchical_section_title: Turkish Cypriot diaspora / Turkey
caption_attribution_description: Türkçe: Ahmet Latif Bacavuz, 1935 yılında K.Kaymaklı’dan ailesi ile birlikte İzmir’e göç eder; 1936 yılında geçirdiği bir iş kazasında ölür ve İzmir’e gömülür. Ahmet Latif Bacavuz, Hamitköy’ün kurucusu Hamit Buba’nın kızı, Alime’nin oğludur. Ahmet Latif Bacavuz’un torunları İzmir ve Adana’da yaşıyor, Mualla Dinçer isimli kızı hayattadır ve İzmir’de yaşıyor. 2010 yılında bu aile ile temas kuruldu ve bu fotoğraf Adana’dan Kıbrıs’a getirildi. Ahmet Latif Bacavuz’un erkek kardeşi Mehmet Bacavuz Taşeli de, 1935’li yıllarda Bursa’ya yerleşti. Mehmet Bacavuz Taşeli ailesi ile henüz bir temas kurulamadı. Ahmet Latif Bacavuz’un lakabı ‘Altın dişli’ idi. Kucağındaki kızının ismi Şifa, ayaktaki kızının ise Havva’dır.
context_page_description: The Turkish Cypriot diaspora is a term used to refer to the Turkish Cypriot community living outside the island of Cyprus.
context_section_description: The first wave of Turkish Cypriot immigration to Turkey occurred in 1878 when the Ottoman Empire leased Cyprus to Great Britain; at that time, 15,000 Turkish Cypriots moved to Anatolia. The flow of Turkish Cypriot emigration to Turkey continued in the aftermath of the First World War, and gained its greatest velocity in the mid-1920s, and continued, at fluctuating speeds during the Second World War.
  Economic motives played an important part as conditions for the poor in Cyprus during the 1920s were especially harsh. Enthusiasm to emigrate to Turkey was inflated by the euphoria that greeted the birth of the newly established Republic of Turkey and later of promises of assistance to Turks who emigrated. A decision made by the Turkish Government at the end of 1925, for instance, noted that the Turks of Cyprus had, according to the Treaty of Lausanne, the right to emigrate to the republic, and therefore, families that so emigrated would be given a house and sufficient land. The precise number of those who emigrated to Turkey is a matter that remains unknown.
  The press in Turkey reported in mid-1927 that of those who had opted for Turkish nationality, 5,000–6,000 Turkish Cypriots had already settled in Turkey. However, many Turkish Cypriots had already emigrated even before the rights accorded to them under the Treaty of Lausanne had come into force.
  St. John-Jones estimated the demographic impact of Turkish Cypriot emigration to Turkey during the 1920s arguing that:
  "[I]f the Turkish-Cypriot community had, like the Greek-Cypriots, increased by 101 per cent between 1881 and 1931, it would have totalled 91,300 in 1931 – 27,000 more than the number enumerated. Is it possible that so many Turkish-Cypriots emigrated in the fifty-year period? Taken together, the considerations just mentioned suggest that it probably was. From a base of 45,000 in 1881, emigration of anything like 27,000 persons seems huge, but after subtracting the known 5,000 of the 1920s, the balance represents an average annual outflow of some 500 – not enough, probably, to concern the community’s leaders, evoke official comment, or be documented in any way which survives today".
  Metin Heper and  Bilge Criss have made a similar observation:
  The first wave of immigration from Cyprus occurred in 1878 when the Ottomans were obliged to lease the island to Great Britain; at that time, 15,000 people moved to Anatolia. When the 1923 Lausanne Treaty gave the island to Great Britain another 30,000 immigrants came to Turkey.
  By August 31, 1955, a statement by Turkey's Minister of State and Acting Foreign Minister, Fatin Rüştü Zorlu, at the London Conference on Cyprus, stated that: 
  Consequently, today [1955] as well, when we take into account the state of the population in Cyprus, it is not sufficient to say, for instance, that 100,000 Turks live there. One should rather say that 100,000 out of 24,000,000 Turks live there and that 300,000 Turkish Cypriots live in various parts of Turkey.
caption: A Turkish Cypriot family who migrated to Turkey in 1935.
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